Friday, October 21, 2011

Quiz tomorrow!

My apologies for not posting since the last 3 days, I was
busy and my mind drew a complete blank whenever my thoughts turned to writing
something over here.

Anyways, the reason I’m writing this post is to tell you all
that I’m participating in my first-ever quiz tomorrow. I mean, first-ever
‘outside’ quiz.

Well, we were told
about the quiz 2 days ago and, I was all-in for it from the very first moment.

Here’s a confession: If I were to give myself a score on my
general knowledge quotient on a scale of ten, then I’d probably get a perfect
circle. Alright, I’m exaggerating. I’ll probably get a ‘minus-one’.

Anyway, I was all
pumped up about it. So, I decided to go through the dungeons of hell and wrench
out some GK books. I found like 3-4 and decided that I’ll finish them all in 2
days. ROFL.

I knew from the very
start that winning the quiz thingy was very improbable (One in a million
chance). I had no doubt about it. I just didn’t want to surrender without a
fight. I wanted to put up a fight.

So, the first day, the motivation was pretty high, I managed
to go through a lot of text and could remember it all but, I didn’t know what
was in store.

I had a really-really bad night. I couldn’t sleep properly!
It felt weird, I cannot quite express it in words.

I didn’t quite understand why I had such a sleepless night.

The next day, I did the same – went over GK books and stuff.

I had another sleepless night. This one, I can remember it
vaguely. Let me explain it to you all with an example – When we are multiplying
two numbers, say 100 and 381. We consider 100 as a whole. But, my mind decided
to make 100 into ( 1+1+1+1+….+1) and 381 into (1+1+1+…+1) And then, proceeded
to multiply them. I know it sounds weird but I think it explains what I went
through pretty well. In simple words, instead of counting 1 as a whole, I
divided it into partitions and went on counting them. Why? I don’t know.

The third day, which is today, I was down with a headache,
throat infection, blocked nose and a running nose. I didn’t quite understand
why it happened all of a sudden. Then, it struck me.

Quizzing is not my thing.

Over the past few days, I was skimming through GK books
trying to remember everything. I went on and on and on. They were just raw
facts which basically had no connection between them and I was trying to
remember them all! I assumed that I could do that. I can but, I realized something.

My mind wasn’t built to process information like that.

I mean, you cannot
take random facts and force them into my head. You can but my mind will over-heat
and break down.

That’s exactly what had happened during those two nights.

I just felt like ranting about it here so, I wrote this
post.

Anyway, I have that quiz tomorrow and I really hope that I’ll
at least go to the second round though I know that it’s going to be real tough.
Real-real tough. No offense meant, but, my team-mates aren’t really that ‘great’.
The only hope lies in me and I’ve realized that quizzing isn’t my forte. Aah!